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 My primary research interest is to develop a robot learning framework that takes advantage of two aspects of human learning process; cumulative (or life-long) learning by means of stochastic approximation and optimal representation of previous experiences as reusable a priori knowledge. I'm also interested in applying the developing framework to multi-entity coordination/collaboration that allows a set of distributed/heterogeneous entities (e.g., robots, software agents, or sensors) at various capabilities to work together toward a common goal.
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  Video Analysis  Recognizing temporary changes of highway driving conditions by analyzing image streams of perspective of autonomous vehicle
  Aerial Image Analysis  Augmenting cartographic resources for autonomous driving
  Tartan Racing  Development of autonomous vehicle for the Urban Challenge
  ARDA  A multi-agent system for enforcing "need-to-know" security policies
  AFOSR PRET  Information fusion for command and control (IFC2)
  AXIS  Automatic dissemination of information to the relevant users
  TextMiner  Mining knowledge from ubiquitous and unstrcutred text
  Warren  A multi-agent system for assisting users monitor and manage their financial portfolio
 
 Publications
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[Seo et al., 2010] Young-Woo Seo, Chris Urmson, David Wettergreen, and Jin-Woo Lee, Building lane-graphs for autonomous parking, In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2010), pp. 6052-6057, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010. [pdf]
[Seo et al., 2009] Young-Woo Seo, Chris Urmson, David Wettergreen, and Jin-Woo Lee, Augmenting cartographic resources for autonomous driving, In Proceedings of ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS-2009), pp. 13-22, Seattle, WA, November, 2009. [pdf]
[Seo and Urmson, 2009] Young-Woo Seo and Chris Urmson, Utilizing prior information to enhance self-supervised aerial image analysis for extracting parking lot structures, In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2009), pp. 339-344, St. Louis, MO, October, 2009. [pdf]
[Seo et al., 2009] Young-Woo Seo, Nathan Ratliff, and Chris Urmson, Self-supervised aerial image analysis for extracting parking lot structure, In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2009), pp. 1837-1842, Pasadena, CA, July, 2009. [pdf]
[Seo and Urmson, 2008] Young-Woo Seo and Chris Urmson, A perception mechanism for supporting autonomous intersection handling in urban driving, In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2008), pp. 1830-1835, Nice, France, September, 2008. [pdf]
[Urmson et al., 2008] Chris Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Drew Bagnell, Christopher Baker, Robert Bittner, M. N. Clark, John Dolan, Dave Duggins, Tugrul Galatali, Chris Geyer, Michele Gittleman, Sam Harbaugh, Martial Hebert, Thomas M. Howard, Sascha Kolski, Alonzo Kelly, Maxim Likhachev, Matt McNaughton, Nick Miller, Kevin Peterson, Brian Pilnick, Raj Rajkumar, Paul Rybski, Bryan Salesky, Young-Woo Seo, Sanjiv Singh, Jarrod Snider, Anthony Stentz, William Red Whittaker, Ziv Wolkowicki, Jason Ziglar, Hong Bae, Thomas Brown, Daniel Demitrish, Bakhtiar Litkouhi, Jim Nickolaou, Varsha Sadekar, Wende Zhang, Joshua Struble, Michael Taylor, Michael Darms, and Dave Ferguson, Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the urban challenge, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Part I, pp. 425-466, 2008.
[Seo and Sycara, 2006] Young-Woo Seo and Katia Sycara, Cost-sensitive access control for illegitimate confidential access by insiders, In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (ISI-2006), pp. 117-128, San Diego, May, 2006 (awarded the "best paper honorable mention").
[Seo and Sycara, 2005] Young-Woo Seo and Katia Sycara, Exploiting multi-agent interactions for identifying the best-payoff information source, In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2005), pp. 344-350, Compiegne, France, September, 2005.
[Giampapa et al., 2005] Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, Chuck Grindle, Yang Xu, and Mike Lewis, An agent-based C4ISR testbed, In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion-2005), July, 2005.
[Seo et al., 2005] Young-Woo Seo, Anupriya Ankolekar, and Katia Sycara, Feature selections for extracting semantically rich words for ontology learning, In Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar Machine Learning for the Semantic Web, February, 2005.
[Giampapa et al., 2004] Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, Chuck Grindle, and Mike Lewis, Extending the OneSAF testbed into a C4ISR testbed, Simulation: Special Issue on Military Simulation Systems and Command and Control Systems Interoperability, Vol. 80, No. 12, pp. 681-691, 2004.

[Seo et al., 2004] Young-Woo Seo, Joseph Giampapa, and Katia Sycara, A multi-agent system for enforcing "Need-To-Know" security policies, In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-2004) Workshop on Agent Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2004), pp. 163-179., NewYork, NY, July, 2004.

[Ankolekar et al., 2003] Anupriya Ankolekar, Young-Woo Seo, and Katia P. Sycara, Investigating semantic knowledge for text learning, In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR-2003 Workshop on Semantic Web, pp. 9-17, July, 2003.
[Zhang and Seo, 2001] Byoung-Tak Zhang and Young-Woo Seo, Personalized web-document filtering using reinforcement learning, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 665-685, 2001.
[Seo and Zhang, 2000] Young-Woo Seo and Byoung-Tak Zhang, Learning user's preferences by analyzing web browsing behaviors, In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents-2000), pp. 381-387, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
[Seo and Zhang, 2000] Young-Woo Seo and Byoung-Tak Zhang, A reinforcement learning agent for personalized information filtering, In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI-2000), pp. 248-251, New Orleans, LA, January, 2000.
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   CFPs on [robotics | AI | data mining | machine learning | vision] | Vision related conference list by IRIS USC
 
 Periodicals of interest
   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) | Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) | Robotics
   IEEE Intelligent Systems | Robotics and Automation Magazine
   AAAI AI Magazine | AI toons | The Future of AI
   Journal of Field Robotics | International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
   Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems
 
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Research Events of Interest (Past Events)
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ICRA-12 Sep 16, 2011 May 14-18, 2012 St. Paul, MN
ICASSP-12 Sep 27, 2011 Mar 25-30, 2012 Kyoto, Japan
CVPR-12 Nov 21, 2011 Jun 18-20, 2012 Providence, RI
AAAI-12 Jan 20/24, 2012 Jul 22-26, 2012 Toronto, Canada
RSS-12 Jan 30, 2012 Jul 9-13, 2012 Sydney, Australia
ICML-12 Feb 24, 2012 Jun 26-July 1, 2012 Edinburgh, Scotland
ECCV-12 Mar 5, 2012 Oct 7-13, 2012 Florence, Italy
IROS-12 Mar 10, 2012 Oct 7-11, 2012 Vilamoura, Portugal
BMVC-12 Apr 26/May 3, 2012 Sep 3-7, 2012 Surrey, England
IEEE Sensors-12 May 4/Jun 30, 2012 Oct 28-31, 2012 Taipei, Taiwan

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